A long while back I bought a brown fatigue hat to replace the camo hat I usually wear.My problem was that I wanted to embellish it—with embroidery--a bit, but wasn’t sure how. So, I came up with some ideas and emailed a bunch of friends to get their input. My friend Christine suggested I do something with Spriographs. So, I busted out the trusty Spirograph maker (my little Hasbro drawing toy) and got to work making designs. Eventually I came up with this:(please ignore the cat hairs on the hat! ).

Front: It’s not totally complete, as I want to put a smaller design in the center of this larger one, but haven’t had time.

Back:

The back has a random design b/c I liked it too much to un-do it.

Side:

This is an early version, but as you can see I ended up pulling these out, because it seemed to be too much and I didn’t like the colors. But, since I was experimenting it was no big deal:

Then, for my friend who inspired this whole thing, I made some simple spirograph patches, which she apparently has the perfect purse to sew them to:

and some close ups:

Basically all I did was make the design with my Spirograph (the “toy”) and then trace it onto the hat and fabric with colored seamstress/embroidery tracing paper. Then, went to work. I love how it turned out, and think everything I own will now have an embroidered spirograph design on it!!